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Scott came to New Orleans the summer he fled the bigotry of a rural Louisiana town. Tony was born and raised in the City that Care Forgot and lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. Now, Scott lives in a homeless shelter and has a job at Tiffany’s Waffles ’n’ Wings, a 24-hour restaurant on the edge of the French Quarter, while Tony is squatting in an abandoned house.

When Tony, desperate for cash, decides to rob someone, along comes Scott. But in the dark alleyway, the younger man stirs something long dormant in Tony. He rescues Scott from being beaten by another thief, then grabs the money for himself and runs. Ashamed of his actions, however, Tony decides to return the money. He follows Scott to work, and the two fragile souls begin a tenuous relationship.

The men fill in what each is missing and what each desires in the other. Scott leaves the shelter to try living with Tony, finding a place to belong and someone who cares for him, and Tony, who has something to prove to himself, longs to be a better man for Scott.

Together, the two kindred spirits try to create a life together in a city on the edge of a comeback...

 

Book Review

Hurricane Katrina destroyed a lot of lives and I'm not just talking about the people who died. All the people left behind with no homes, no jobs anymore, no way to take care of themselves, and no light at the end of the tunnel. It left people on the streets selling themselves or dealing drugs just to keep a little bit of food in their bellies. It's in this environment that Scott and Tony meet, and miraculously, fall in love.

Scott has been on his own for a long time even though he's only nineteen. He grew up in group homes and ran away at sixteen. He lives at the men's homeless shelter and has a job working at Tiffany's Waffles & Wings, the only place he feels like he belongs and is loved. On his way to work one morning, Scott gets mugged and then his mugger gets mugged by a giant of a man with skin like ebony. Tony feels bad about stealing the skinny little white dude's five dollars but he's starving and he has no choice. He follows the kid to his job, though, to make sure no one else bothers him. The next day Tony stops Scott on his way to work and gives him back his money, then walks him to his job. Tony gets a few hours of work in the marketplace and meets Scott after his shift to walk him back to the shelter. Which is when Scott decides to stay with Tony in the abandoned house he's squatting in. It sounds crazy, doesn't it? But these people have seen the worst life has to offer and snap judgments about people's characters is something they can do in a heartbeat. Scott knows Tony won't hurt him.

This was a beautiful love story of impossible odds. Two men with nothing but a desire to work hard and not have to sell themselves ever again, meeting under unusual circumstances and falling in love. Scott and Tony had suffered so much hardship in their young lives that finding each other was a miracle neither expected. A wonderful short story!

 

 

 

 

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Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 98 pages/21000 words
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Publication Date	14-February-2010
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